Author: Andy Kyriakides

It’s 5.30am on the Sunday of #peacehackLDN, and I’m sitting in hack central under dim lights lightly observing hackers who have spent all night solving problems and coding solutions. It never ceases to amaze and inspire me how these talented people can carry on working into the small hours. I remember the same thing happened[…]

Yesterday we kicked off our #peacehack 2016 edition as part of Big Data for peace and justice summer school, run by the University of Leiden and the Centre for Innovation. We did a “#peacehack lite” afternoon ideation session with a focus around countering online hate speech. As we had to condense a 36 hour hack[…]

We’re pleased to announce that #peacehack returns to London for the third consecutive year this October, as part of International Alert’s Talking Peace Festival The theme for this years’ #peacehackLDN will be ‘hacking hate speech’. Over two days, the hackathon will examine the real issues of Islamophobia faced by Muslims in the UK and beyond[…]